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Oh, the people of Walmart. All a big supermarket chain wants for their costumers is to feel comfortable at the store. In the biggest grocery retailer in the US, some people take this feeling too seriously. Ahh, Walmart. The place to go when Target is just too high-end and you don’t have quite enough gas...

It’s always fascinating to see an artist take their work to the next level by expanding boundaries and pushing themselves to achieve more like the cosplay make-up artist doing insanely life-like work. Scottish artist Ewan McClure decided that painting a photo of himself was much too easy so he added a degree of difficulty — he …

Art dealer and host of the BBC One show Fake or Fortune, Philip Mould, live-tweeted his latest art restoration project. He’s tasked with removing over 200 years of yellowing varnish from a 400-year-old painting. Watch the first fascinating moments of the project. A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish 1/2 pic.twitter.com/yBGNGDcNd7 — …

There’s something to be said for people that dedicate their time and life to perfecting a craft. It’s especially impressive if the person is completely self-taught. Justyna Sosnowska – also known as Sosenka – earned a Landscape Architecture degree. Her real interest and passion, however, is special effects makeup. She couldn’t afford to go back …

In every single major city, space is at a premium. Still, people continue to build monster buildings that take up the little land still available. A company in Helsinki, Finland wants urban planners to rethink the way buildings are constructed and prove that a perfectly livable home can fit into a parking space. Yes, one …

These Pokémon pictures are sure to give every child, and possibly some adults, nightmares. Artist David Szilagyi turned beloved Pokémon characters into hellacious monsters and his work is absolutely enthralling. The inspiration for these Pokemon pictures and portraits comes from not only a love of the classic game but a young life captivated with the …

We have come a long way from our humble beginnings, and our collective history boasts of an infinite amount of stories, myths, and legends. But how do study them? We may find some answers by examining these primitive relics from human history.

We've never seen an artist quite like Mimi Choi. The 31-year-old Vancouver-based makeup genius creates optical illusions so startlingly realistic that they render us speechless in a mix of terror and awe. What you see hasn't been Photoshopped or otherwise digitally altered. Mimi uses basic makeup to create the stuff of nightmares (a hole in...

Jeffrey Michael Samudosky of JMS Wood Sculpture is an artist wielding a chainsaw, and his latest work is stunning. The Gig Harbor, Washington resident carved a gargantuan Pacific octopus out of a fallen redwood tree. Born and raised in Shelton, Connecticut, Samudosky studied art and photography and spent time traveling the continent as an Outward Bound instructor, …